Haredi MK Rabbi Meir Porush also lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by sarcastically urging the Shaked Committee to allow haredi yeshiva students to fulfill their military service requirement by doing national civilian service as attendants in the Prime Minister’s residence and in Netanyahu’s villa in seaside town of Caesarea.
MK Rabbi Meir Porush
Haredi MK Says Haredim Are Treated Like Foreigners In Israel And Therefore Should Not Be Drafted
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Member of Knesset Rabbi Meir Porush of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party reportedly lashed out during a meeting of the Shaked Committee earlier this week, which is tasked with writing the new draft law haredim oppose.
“I am hesitant about discussing the law in the Law Committee. I suggest that the discussion be moved to the ‘Committee for Service of Foreigners’ since haredim are treated as foreigners.…Haredim in Israel today feel like second rate citizens,” Porush reportedly said.
Porush also lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by sarcastically urging the Shaked Committee to allow haredi yeshiva students to fulfill their military service requirement by doing national civilian service as attendants in the Prime Minister’s residence and in Netanyahu’s villa in seaside town of Caesarea.
Porush is a vehement opponent of drafting haredi yeshiva students and also strongly opposes forcing them to do national civilian service instead of the draft. Porush contends that haredi yeshiva students should be allowed to study undisturbed in perpetuity and that the government should subsidize that study.